[free-sklyarov] courses of action

[Jon O .]

Furthermore, it seems like we all understand these laws are being bought
by the politicians. Therefore, besides voting the best way to control
them is to control their money. We need to reform how they run for 
office so their alligence is with US no the Corporations.

You want a hand delivered letter to the President? You want someone
to carry that DiBona letter signed by everyone to the person who
MUST read it?

Give it to Jeanette, send her a couple bucks too:

http://www.thewalkfordemocracy.org/




On 10-Sep-2001, mike castleman wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 07:36:24PM -0400, Kenneth Burger wrote:
> > I dunno, but if this one gets passed, I'm leaving the US for another
> > country.  Probably one of the Scandanavian countries.  I'll come
> > back when the people are getting ready to start a civil war and join
> > in that movement, but in the mean time I'm not going to live under
> > that kind of tyranny.
> 
> What'll that accomplish? This is flawed reasoning; there are two
> arguments I can make -- pick the one you feel is more convincing:
> 
>  - We should work to change the laws of the place where we are. Surely
>    we can learn from other countries and what they do well, but in the
>    end, running away from our problems is not the best way to solve
>    them. In any event, not everyone can afford (monetarily or in other
>    ways) to just pick emself up and move to another country.
> 
>  - No place on Earth is going to be much better in terms of
>    DMCA/SSSCA. In Sweden, for example, a video store was prosecuted
>    because it sold Region 1 DVDs. Not pirated or anything like that;
>    merely meant for the "wrong" part of the world. With WIPO, WTO, and
>    similar organizations, these problems are becoming global. Running
>    to Scandinavia is no escape.
> 
> -- 
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